New Stuff 7/28/07

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Wicker Park Fest is in full effect. Crocs, ball caps and baggy tees. I think Jimmy Buffet was just in here looking at porn. Crazy! What more to say another week of new stuff. Looks like the summer lull is subsiding and hot books are starting to trickle out.

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“Gee whiz, Google didn’t have any good hits for cornhole… Maybe I’ll have better luck if I try searching for corn and hole.”

New Stuff 7/21/07

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Sorry folks, no Harry Potter for us this week? It’s a muggle house in here. When I get done I’ll tell you who dies. Guess if I had to pick a fictional character to be down with I’d take wizards over anarchists any day.
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Wred Fright, Crazy Carl Robinson and Grant Schreiber

Jul ’07
21
12:00 am

Wred Fright, Crazy Carl Robinson
and Grant SchreiberSaturday, July 21th, 7:00 PMFREE
 
An evening of reading, answering questions, channeling dead professional wrestlers to give advice to the audience, and who knows what else; featuring:
 
Wred Fright is the author of The Pornographic Flabbergasted Emus (ULA/Out Your Backdoor Press, 2006), a rock and roll novel from the world of zines.
 
Crazy Carl Robinson is the author of Fat On The Vine (ULA/Out Your Backdoor Press, 2007), a novel Carl\’s mother says is filth, but most other readers call a masterpiece.
 
Grant Schreiber of Judas Goat Quarterly brings the local flavor.
 
Related websites:
http://www.wredfright.com
http://www.ulapress.com
http://www.literaryrevolution.com
http://www.myspace.com/wredfright

Crimethinc’s Middle West Cloak & Dagger Tour

Jul ’07
19
8:00 pm

Crimethinc’s Middle West Cloak & Dagger TourThurs. July 19th 8pm

Crimethinc presents the “Crimethinc Middle West Cloak and Dagger Tour”, members of the Crimethinc collective will be visiting various Midwest cities (Davenport, Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Kalamazoo, Columbus, etc) with puppet shows, workshops, and more. They’ll be presenting about Security Culture, Consent, Animal Liberation, and possibly Queer/Trans Awareness. The final destination of our tour is the Crimethinc Convergence, which is to be held in Athens, OH this year from July 25th-31st. There we will have many workshops on just about everything, all the while camping and enjoying the company of others in a community-oriented setting.

A group of 5 young activists from all over the US. with various activist backgrounds make up the Crimethinc members on this tour. There’re all anticapitalists, antifascists, and animal liberationists

More information is available at www.crimethinc.com